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Just got done taking the DAT an hour ago thought I would share how I did with the world...
PAT 23
QR 17😡
RC 20
BIO 24😱
GC 20
OC 26
TS 23
AA 21
BIOLOGY😀
Is not as hard as I thought it would be...out of 40 i guessed on like 4... I used Destroyer, Kaplan course, sparks and old bio notes from school. pretty basic overall though..nothing on lymphatic system, classification, kidney! but cant tell you it wont be on yours!
General Chemistry
I kept trying to solve problems that just wanted you to show how to set it up. so look at the answer choices before trying to do some crazy division and multiplication. not too much math though more concepts like periodic table trends. i I didn't have to do an ice table.
Organic Chemistry
Really easy. basic reactions That i remember was aldol rxn, and benzene addition. radical stability... I wish i could tell you more but it was kind of a blur.
PAT
Thought i did super ****ty but I'm pretty stoked with my score. angles are a lot easier than cdp, but everything else is pretty much similar to CDP.
Reading Comp
I got brain, calcium, and human genome. I tried mapping first because that what i practiced the past 2 months but I remembered what my summer best friend told me to do and i went to Search and Destroy or whatever. I think it worked considering that im use to 18s and 19s on RC.
Math
people are joking when they say this section is hard. I would say 10 were straight algebra, 20 word problems 6 geometry and the rest i guessed on haha. oh! some interest and probability problems.
My studying...
I studied with this cutie named Hien or hen? I forgot his name i just remembered that it was weird...he taught me a lot of bio that i didn't even need but i don't think I could have done it with out him. Thanks for being a friend! Any way Hen and I studied a good 7 to 8 hours a day together teaching each other our strengths . I would also spend 3 to 4 hours at night trying to finish all the kaplan workshops(so freaking many) and Pat. over all I studied a little more than 2 months 11-14 hours a day. Didn't skip any days except one day I did 6 :[
The test day
So stressful. being around all these people taking boards for med school and dental school made me feel as if my test wasn't very important. the security for the testing center is way more strict than i was expecting. Being fingerprinted everytime i went on a break of went to the bath room, which happened 45 min going into my test. I had to sprint...shook the whole building and got yelled at. Also the during the pat I thought that the example was a question so i spent 2 or 3 mins trying to click an answer and thought my computer was frozen but the timer kept going... so dumb.
About me:
I went to UC Santa Cruz the past 2 years and have a 3.9 not including a few A+ which i believe count as 4.3 instead of just a 4.0(correct me if I'm wrong) not sure how much that will help my GPA. For my third year (this fall) I'm transferring to UC Berkeley. This winter break I plan on shadowing, collecting my letters of rec and working on my personal statement so i can apply early in June. Am I missing anything that I can do in the mean time to make my application stronger?
PAT 23
QR 17😡
RC 20
BIO 24😱
GC 20
OC 26
TS 23
AA 21
BIOLOGY😀
Is not as hard as I thought it would be...out of 40 i guessed on like 4... I used Destroyer, Kaplan course, sparks and old bio notes from school. pretty basic overall though..nothing on lymphatic system, classification, kidney! but cant tell you it wont be on yours!
General Chemistry
I kept trying to solve problems that just wanted you to show how to set it up. so look at the answer choices before trying to do some crazy division and multiplication. not too much math though more concepts like periodic table trends. i I didn't have to do an ice table.
Organic Chemistry
Really easy. basic reactions That i remember was aldol rxn, and benzene addition. radical stability... I wish i could tell you more but it was kind of a blur.
PAT
Thought i did super ****ty but I'm pretty stoked with my score. angles are a lot easier than cdp, but everything else is pretty much similar to CDP.
Reading Comp
I got brain, calcium, and human genome. I tried mapping first because that what i practiced the past 2 months but I remembered what my summer best friend told me to do and i went to Search and Destroy or whatever. I think it worked considering that im use to 18s and 19s on RC.
Math
people are joking when they say this section is hard. I would say 10 were straight algebra, 20 word problems 6 geometry and the rest i guessed on haha. oh! some interest and probability problems.
My studying...
I studied with this cutie named Hien or hen? I forgot his name i just remembered that it was weird...he taught me a lot of bio that i didn't even need but i don't think I could have done it with out him. Thanks for being a friend! Any way Hen and I studied a good 7 to 8 hours a day together teaching each other our strengths . I would also spend 3 to 4 hours at night trying to finish all the kaplan workshops(so freaking many) and Pat. over all I studied a little more than 2 months 11-14 hours a day. Didn't skip any days except one day I did 6 :[
The test day
So stressful. being around all these people taking boards for med school and dental school made me feel as if my test wasn't very important. the security for the testing center is way more strict than i was expecting. Being fingerprinted everytime i went on a break of went to the bath room, which happened 45 min going into my test. I had to sprint...shook the whole building and got yelled at. Also the during the pat I thought that the example was a question so i spent 2 or 3 mins trying to click an answer and thought my computer was frozen but the timer kept going... so dumb.
About me:
I went to UC Santa Cruz the past 2 years and have a 3.9 not including a few A+ which i believe count as 4.3 instead of just a 4.0(correct me if I'm wrong) not sure how much that will help my GPA. For my third year (this fall) I'm transferring to UC Berkeley. This winter break I plan on shadowing, collecting my letters of rec and working on my personal statement so i can apply early in June. Am I missing anything that I can do in the mean time to make my application stronger?
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